There was a town hall meeting in Standish, Michigan today regarding accepting Guantanamo Prisoners in the maximum security prison there, the area’s largest employer. I was not able to be there, but my friend Tim Sumner of 911 Families For a Safe and Strong America has a detailed story about it. Tim and Debra Burlingame head up the aforementioned 911 website, and Deb spoke today at the Standish town hall. Debra Burlingame is the sister of the pilot of the airliner that was flown by terrorists into the pentagon on September 11th, 2001.

When I looked at my email this evening, I found a message from Move America Forward. It is below in it’s entirety, but I have one tiny problem with it. I explain the disagreement below.

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STANDISH, MICH. RESIDENTS TURN AGAINST OBAMA

Move America Forward

NO GITMO TERRORISTS IN AMERICA!

MICHIGAN RESIDENTS FIGHTING BACK AGAINST LEAKED OBAMA PLAN TO BRING TERRORISTS TO THEIR COMMUNITY

In Standish, Mich., site of a nearly vacant prison, residents are beginning to realize that the Obama Administration is serious about bringing terrorists to the United States, where they will quickly achieve the rights that should be reserved ONLY for Americans and those legally here.

Jennifer Granholm, the governor of Michigan, fears for her political life. She has been desperately seeking an alternative to the Obama plan, such as California or Pennsylvania sending prisoners to the Standish correctional facility. With recent news that California can’t afford to pay the costs of housing their inmates in Michigan, the governor is running out of ideas.

Fortunately, residents of Standish are starting to recognize that it isn’t worth the risk of bringing more than 230 of the most dangerous Islamic radicals in the world to a small town that could be potentially vulnerable. Not only will these Islamic extremists try to recruit from within the prison population, think of the undesirable elements that will come to town to be close to these murderous cut-throats.

In Standish, Mich., restaurant owner David Munson is organizing a community forum to oppose the potential transfer of prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the local prison, which is facing budget cuts and likely to shut it down.

“We don’t want the Guantanamo people there,” he told FOXNews.com. “And we felt like the situation was moving way too quickly to bring the Guantanamo people here.”

Obama is trying to shove Gitmo on America without listening to the opposition from the American people, just like he did with the bailouts, the take-over of the auto industry, the trillion dollars of wasteful spending and now his health insurance bill that would lead to a complete federalization of medicine. Too fast, no accountability, no communication with stakeholders, like the American people who might be under attack, and no consideration of the danger posed by these detainees.

We can choose to put our own national security at risk, or we can continue to hold the terrorists at Gitmo, where an ideal facility has been built that abides by all international laws and is tailor-made for the purpose of housing these evil terrorists. The choice seems obvious: If it’s not BROKEN, don’t try to FIX IT!

The only reason Obama has for doing this is to appease his fringe left-wing constituency, which would like to see the terrorists go free, and to reassure weak-kneed European governments that America would rather be an appeaser than a strong leader. But we cannot do it alone. We need your support so we can keep the fight going before it is too late and terrorists are literally on your doorstep.

Move America Forward is fighting to
keep GITMO where it belongs, IN GITMO!We do not want GITMO in AMERICA, make a contribution
today to keep the terrorists out of the U.S.!

The FOX article says that the organizer of today’s town hall meeting was an early supporter of bringing the terrorists over to Standish, but after talking to Representative Pete Hoekstra, he changed his mind.

Hoekstra, he said, told him the presence of Gitmo detainees could endanger the lives of prison guards and their families as well as the entire community, which would become the target of jihadists.

Earlier this week, Hoekstra said that Obama’s administration has been making wild claims to the locals, trying to sell them on the idea that they will reap massive economic benefits from housing the terrorists. His stimulus plan has already been proven to be a failure, just a big waste of taxpayer money. Now he is trying to bamboozle Americans into thinking it is good for the economy to have terrorists in our country.

Last week, the Michigan Republican sent letters to Attorney General Eric Holder and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, asking them to allow him to lead a delegation of state officials and media to the Guantánamo prison to gain a better understanding of associated risks. But he said he hasn’t heard back from either of them.

“I’m getting a little frustrated with the administration,” Hoekstra said. “They’re making all kinds of promises and ‘commitments’ to local officials that they’re not willing to share with Members of Congress. I think it’s flat out wrong.”

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Now, I don’t have a problem with Move America Forward, I love them, they are focused and fighting this fight seemingly alone. However, I have to disagree with this paragraph,

“Jennifer Granholm, the governor of Michigan, fears for her political life. She has been desperately seeking an alternative to the Obama plan, such as California or Pennsylvania sending prisoners to the Standish correctional facility. With recent news that California can’t afford to pay the costs of housing their inmates in Michigan, the governor is running out of ideas.”

Call me cynical, but Jennifer Granholm is not in fear of the end of her career. She is Barry’s girl! She is exactly like him. There is an old saying, “As Michigan goes, so goes the nation.” Isn’t it obvious? Michigan has been steadily worsening since Granholm came aboard, and now, America is following suit.

During July, we heard that perhaps the Gitmo prisoners were to be housed in Standish. The idea was that in order to keep the prison from closing, Standish needed to either attract prisoners from other states, or think about housing Gitmo prisoners. The people of Standish weren’t happy about their situation, but the families there depend on the prison to stay open. Representatives from California prisons and Pennsylvania prisons came to check out the feasiblity of sending some prisoners to Standish. Just a few days ago, the other states had the same story. Michigan is asking for too much money to take in other state’s prisoners. Oh, and poor Jennifer Granholm is just distraught. She is just hurting so, because it is tough enough that the prisons have to shut down due to budget cuts, but she also just really thinks that housing Gitmo prisoners poses such a security threat to fellow Michiganders. Sure.

So, where are we now? Michigan’s prisons are shutting down and the only way they can possibly stay open and keep Michigan jobs is to accept the most vile, evil pieces of excrement on the face of the planet.

Jennifer Granholm has the people of Standish by the short and curlies.

Diana Fairbanks of TV 7&4 News in Northern Michigan had a fact finder report this morning.

The Governor said, “In fact since we made bipartisan changes to our economic development incentives last year, Michigan’s Economic Development Agency, the MEDC had the best six months ever in its history for creating jobs: 55,000 jobs; $4.7 billion dollars of investment; 84 companies. This despite the recession just since August. Those jobs and businesses are listed on our website at www.michigan.gov/jobs“

Sounds great. She invited all of us to take a look at those jobs on the state’s website. So i did.

What I found is the subject of a Fact Finder Report.

True, there are thousands of jobs and projects listed.And they are located in communities likeGrandRapids,Novi,AnnArbor,Livonia, andDetroit.

Of the hundreds of projects listed,I only found six in northernMichigan.Two each inTraverseCity andMasonCounty and one each inCadillac andBigRapids.

And combined they are projected to create 551 jobs.Most of those from an possible future expansion ofHagertyInsurance.

These jobs equal one percent of the total number of jobs theMichiganEconomicDevelopmentCorporation brought to the state.And those jobs haven’t all been created yet, and might not be.

To be fair, some of those downstate communities have unemployment rates above the state average of 10.6%, but others are well below likeOakland at 8.6% unemployment inDecember.That’s one of the lowest in the state.WhileGrandTraverseCounty has10% unemployment andWexford is at more than 15%! In fact all but two northernMichigan counties are above the state average.